George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Law Quotes, Judging Quotes

Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

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Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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